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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1878
Page
1
The Register lists subscription costs and advertising rates for notices. Rates include yearly subscription at 8.50 in advance and 8.2 for delayed six months. Advertising charges cover various column widths and durations, with all legal ads per law and advance payment required for transient notices.
The Indiana Democratic platform advocates replacing national bank notes with treasury notes, endorses greenbacks as legal tender, supports government control of currency, and urges state taxation of United States notes. It calls for debt funding reform, a six percent legal interest cap, silver dollar restorement, repeal of the resumption act, public spending restraint, and miners lungs protections, while opposing class legislation and federal subsidies. It also denounces Tilden and Hendricks election interference and requests Mexican War pensions.
Myra Gorham schemes for Gilbert Gorham’s fortune but learns the hard way that Aunt Jane’s claim to Fern Nook and its income outruns any marriage risk. Gilbert discovers Ella Rayburn and, with Aunt Jane’s aid, rejects Myra after a dramatic revelation.
A devotional verse urges steadfast courage through hardship. It exhorts keeping faith, pursuing light, and fighting forward despite bleak paths. The star above the steeple-vane symbolizes guidance and hope in darkness, urging perseverance and inner peace.
A reflective verse snippet speaks to young and old alike about bitterness, urging that facing grief early can spare later hearts from its sting. It notes children’ s hearts feel grief keenly and implies early triumph over sorrow yields lasting resilience.
The piece argues Vienna hosts a vast Jewish community nearing 200,000, influencing commerce banking media music and culture. It claims Jewish control over major firms banks press and social life with prominent figures at the center of the capital’s economy and pleasures.
A quirky collection of household omens warns that breaking a looking glass signals needing a new one while taking extra butter implies two pieces for you. Friday misfortune delays plans till Sunday, and dropped forks or spilled ga alt oddly predict outcomes. A slippery pavement can foil boils by a stealth strike before the boil looks.
A fragment recalls a young man once confident in public, now seen with a baby carriage on a Sunday afternoon, hinting at social reform influence and changes in manners attributed to women's influence.
A London survey details 11,440 wholesale firms at year start, with several dating back before 1600. Martin & Co. dates to 1555, Child & Co. and Crossings & Sharpe before 1650, Bank of England in 1694, Hoares and Coutts earlier, Baring Bros. in 1763, and Hedges & Butler in 1767. Longmans has published since 1720, Bentley earlier.
A satire prospectus offers a religious paper on faith and sewing machines with outrageous subscriber premiums. One copy nets patent petroleum paste, two copies sardines, ten copies iron clad spectacles, twelve copies a wooden leg and corkscrew inkstand, twenty copies false calves and Anna Dickinson writings, up to fifty copies costly fur suit and burial plot, and even a Congress nomination for five hundred copies. A farm in New Jersey and brass knuckles for clergy agents are included for larger deals.
The article recalls ancient grief rites such as lachrymatory tear bottles among Jews and Romans. It notes Count Shimmelman who built a marble statue whose eyes drip water continuously and M Brueno who filled fountains with ink to mourn his mother, both using mechanical mourning devices.
A young Cincinnati man lost his bride when she detected whisky on his breath and left him at the altar. The groom had been frugal to a fault, not wasting money on luxuries, and the marriage was called off.
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